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| author |  Klaus Aehlig <aehlig@google.com> | 2017-03-02 10:25:33 +0000 |
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| committer |  Yue Gan <yueg@google.com> | 2017-03-02 13:32:31 +0000 |
| commit | a763ce111a311cb4653edb3d202b2382aa8074ef (patch) | |
| tree | 074ae15de5468d7a3a5f64b7bf45fc1930f4a569 /site/contributing.md | |
| parent | 508af301b3d7c1465189a0edfe4707a1c261a658 (diff) | |
Update instructions for building bazel from source
As we do not recommend using versions of bazel pre 0.4.1, drop instructions
on how to build those old versions. Also, emphasize that building bazel at
HEAD is only assumed to work, if the latest version of bazel is used.
Hopefully, this will help avoid misunderstandings as in #2608.
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Change-Id: I5192bbc7420a3611fad99b8872e0074a02060183
Reviewed-on: https://cr.bazel.build/9119
PiperOrigin-RevId: 148982493
MOS_MIGRATED_REVID=148982493
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/site/contributing.md b/site/contributing.md index bf6915b17b..78684a405b 100644 --- a/site/contributing.md +++ b/site/contributing.md @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ for Java. We don't have IDE support for other languages in Bazel right now. ### Preparations * [Install Bazel](https://bazel.build/versions/master/docs/install.html) on your system. + Note that for developing Bazel, you need the latest released version of Bazel. * Clone Bazel's Git repository from Gerrit: * `git clone https://bazel.googlesource.com/bazel` * Try to build Bazel: @@ -103,8 +104,8 @@ To work with Eclipse: ### Compiling Bazel To test out bazel, you need to compile it. To compile a development version of -Bazel, you need a working version of Bazel already, e.g., the latest release -version [compiled from source](/versions/master/docs/install.html#compiling-from-source). +Bazel, you need a the latest released version of bazel, which can be +[compiled from source](/versions/master/docs/install.html#compiling-from-source). `bazel build //src:bazel` builds the Bazel binary using `bazel` from your PATH and the resulting binary can be found at `bazel-bin/src/bazel`. This is the |